How To Use Broach In A Sentence
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How can I broach the subject with him?
The Sun
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Keen only pauses for a single paragraph to broach the enormous issue of whether the internet and e-mail are actually changing the way our brains work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since you say she is already quite insecure, you need to broach this issue sensitively.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes, but I don't want us to broach to and go over if the wind shifts.
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The collection included a wide range of jewellery such as necklaces, earrings, bangles, studs, broaches and mangalsutra.
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The regular-sized Mayo stand contains instruments used routinely during the procedure, and the large Mayo stand holds instruments, reamers, and broaches specific to the implant system selected for use.
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I didn't broach the issue again.
Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
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I’ve toyed with the idea of broaching the subject of ID for some time now, and while I have skirted the issue in class, I’ve never developed a lecture for it, largely because I fully agree that it is non-science.
Archive 2006-02-01
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Only St-Joseph and that paler shadow Crozes-Hermitage can sensibly be broached within their first five years.
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One area the cutting remarks never seem to broach is the safety standards of the vehicles.
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No, we don't have anything coming close to broaching that subject," new Communications Director Matt Inveo told me.
Jason Salzman: Radio Host Says Republicans Trying to Shut Up Their Own
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How could we broach such a subject so early in their grief?
Christianity Today
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Or was the bestowal of a glass of wine regarded as a necessary courtesy in broaching or sealing these unsentimental transactions?
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Led by Sweden, these states began to broach the question of membership of the EC.
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It had been Adam, too, who had broached the subject of a new computer programming system for the business.
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It is, after all, the camaraderie of colleagues you miss most as you broach the uncharted loneliness of a weekday afternoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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But having broached the thorny issue of using government entities to boost housing, the Fed didn't touch on questions surrounding a needed long-term revamp of housing finance.
Fed Up With the Depressed State of Housing
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If you feel they aren't then it's up to you to broach the issue.
Life Without Work
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The other spectre that haunts liberal economics – other than the lingering unhappiness that its happy-clappy consumerism generates – is the broaching of planetary boundaries for survival.
The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane
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Finally, she broached the subject that had been playing on her mind for days.
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Kegs of hard cider and spruce beer and perhaps more potent brews are abroach, and behind the haggling and jesting and bustle you may catch the sound of muskets or the whoop of the Indians from afar.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775
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The former had at length succeeded to the extensive property of his long-lived grand-aunt, and to considerable wealth besides, which he had employed in redeeming his paternal acres (by the title appertaining to which he still chose to be designated), notwithstanding Captain Craigengelt had proposed to him a most advantageous mode of vesting the money in Law's scheme, which was just then broached, and offered his services to travel express to Paris for the purpose.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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The more interesting aspect is the use of the term "broach" which in sailing terms refers to the threatened tipping over of a sailboat.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Only yourself, and Abraham Chaumieux, the vinegar merchant and crucified convulsionary, could be capable of broaching so infamous
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The therapist should explain fully why certain areas of questioning are being broached so that parents feel part of the assessment procedure.
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Prospects perked up when I broached the first of my rapidly warming cans and heard loud singing from what looked like a pub but which turned out to be Sunday service at the Salvation Army.
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Here in the United States, for many months it was considered anti-social if not unpatriotic to even broach one's disagreement with the administration during these troubled times.
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I hope they broach their bottles, because the whisky, with its honey and praline richness, deserves it.
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You probably won't have to broach the subject because they will come to you.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has also broached the topic of revisiting taxes on casino operators.
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With the unusual flavours and spices in the chicken and lamb, a Spanish red or rosé is the bottle to broach.
Times, Sunday Times
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Had the riverbanks been broached then the damage caused would have been catastrophic, both in human terms and in its effect on the business and commercial life of the city.
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The rudder sits in the outflow of the keel and is called upon to provide lift at very small angles of attack and not stall when required to prevent a broach.
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The question was, indeed, broached by the greatest thinkers among the great Greeks; howeer, their answer was always with reference to the presencing of the present Anwesen des Anwesenden, and the ambiguity contained in this "twofold," the tragic flaw contained in this failure to make what Heidegger calls the "ontological difference" was to haunt western thought concerning the tiny word "is" from Parmenides' famous maxim to the "is" of Hegel's speculative propositions.
Enowning
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After years of marriage you're comfortable enough with each other to broach the subject.
The Sun
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As dawn broached the horizon, it cast a thin, pale light into her room and over her face.
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In one place cooks were toiling to roast huge oxen, and fat sheep; in another, hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.
Ivanhoe
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the cask was set abroach
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Since you say she is already quite insecure, you need to broach this issue sensitively.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two main parties have become a cartel, operating a tacit understanding not to broach any important issue.
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Steve has broached a subject close to my heart — dipodic meter — and I thought it might deserve a little space of its own here on Harriet.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Finally, she broached the subject that had been playing on her mind for days.
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‘I still don't understand it,’ Andy finally broached.
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A jazz equivalent of a National Theatre company or ENO has never been seriously broached in England, though a National Jazz Centre was almost built in Covent Garden in the early 80s, before overoptimism, underfunding and Thatcherism sank it.
London jazz festival: the grand nationals
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It will only upset the applecart and confuse the issue if that topic is broached prematurely.
PROSPECT HILL
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I was told before the interview not to broach the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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He determined that when the boy broached the subject he would give him such a "jawing" (to use his own vernacular) "as would put an end to that nonsense.
What Can She Do?
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After years of marriage you're comfortable enough with each other to broach the subject.
The Sun
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I had first met Marcel Ospel two months earlier, when he broached the idea of closer cooperation between UBS and PaineWebber.
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How could we broach such a subject so early in their grief?
Christianity Today
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This does not even broach less Feul, pottable water and electricity more than 3 years out.
Think Progress » Hagel: ‘Things Are Worse Off In The Middle East Today Than They Were Three Years Ago’
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It's best to set aside a special time to broach any difficult topics.
Life Without Work
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We found a lot of old sails in a locker at the fore end of the forecastle, and these we divided, taking away a sufficiency to kindle a good rousing fire in the hold; and over these, as soon as we had deposited them in a suitable position, as well as over those remaining in the locker, we poured a few buckets of tar from a cask we found abroach on deck.
For Treasure Bound
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How can I broach the topic without hurting his feelings?
Times, Sunday Times
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Engineers Work in Safety Harness "This process proceeds to within a few inches of the final surface, and then the finishing is done by a 'broaching' process.
Modern Mechanix
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Her pale green suit is adorned by an ornate marcasite and onyx broach.
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But there can be a certain reluctance to broach the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also asked if he could broach the idea of the company experimenting with a new model.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the morning of the Duchess of Devonshire's rout that Carstares again broached the subject.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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Since you say she is already quite insecure, you need to broach this issue sensitively.
Times, Sunday Times
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You could then broach the idea of opening a savings account for your niece.
Times, Sunday Times
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I resented the notion broached upon her nomination - that one woman is as good as another, that Hillary voters will fall in lockstep behind her because they wouldn't care about or even notice the difference; that women would be happy to sacrifice their ideals at the altar of simple gender ascendancy.
RVABlogs
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It featured broach cut rifling, was lapped by hand, and was made from 4140 carbon steel.
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He was enjoying a plate of baklava when he broached the subject he was here to discuss... Benjamin Adnam.
NIMITZ CLASS
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Bring the bows too far round and we'd broach to and be gone in a second in yon great gullies between the waves.
THE LONELY SEA
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And it isn't because the contracts were too sensitive to broach in public: selected portions were used even where the documents were redacted or remained under seal.
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Shorter handgun-length barrels are rifled through a cutting process known as broaching.
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About 7 o'clock heavy seas swept over her and she broached, then sank by the stern.
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Eventually I broached the subject of her early life.
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Fellow students wanting to honour Venesha's memory broached the subject of taking on a project in her name.
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As soon as the gale moderated Mr. Pike had the cask brought aft and broached, and now the steward and Wada have it all in bottles and spare demijohns.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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Through error or confusion perhaps, but never was the idea broached of sending criminals to the United States, because of a fundamental reason.
CASTRO DISCUSSES IMMIGRATION AGREEMENT WITH U.S.
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But, perhaps with a few revisions, Pacamambo could become one of those unflinching stories that teachers and parents can rely on to broach difficult subjects.
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This life dwelt in Him during His earthly ministry, though comparatively few availed themselves of it; His death set it abroach for all the world; the smitten rock yielded streams of living water; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit; from His throne He proclaimed Himself as He that liveth, though He became dead, and is alive forevermore.
Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
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It's best to set aside a special time to broach any difficult topics.
Life Without Work
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He was medevacked to a hospital in Greenland, where, Hooper recalled for National Geographic, he broached the idea of aborting the trip.
CNN.com
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Let's broach another bottle of wine.
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I thought I'd better broach the matter with my boss.
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Vintners tap a cask by broaching it, or enlarging a hole with a boring-bit also called a broach.
No Uncertain Terms
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Sir Richard, anxious not to arouse the hostility of the villagers, bought the pipe of wine from the winner, and, setting it abroach, allowed all who would to drink; and so, in a tumult of cheers and blessings, he rode away to keep his tryst.
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
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Before broaching the subject of this lecture, I should like to recall that the discoveries of radium and of polonium were made by Pierre Curie in collaboration with me.
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I broach the subject of fancy dress to my proud husband.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is guaranteed to become one of the go-to books when nervy parents need to broach this subject.
The Sun
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“An they come not back the sooner,” said Tibb, “they will fare the waur, for the meat will be roasted to a cinder — and there is poor Simmie that can turn the spit nae langer: the bairn is melting like an icicle in warm water — Gang awa, bairn, and take a mouthful of the caller air, and I will turn the broach till ye come back.”
The Monastery
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Is there a tactful way to broach the subject?
Times, Sunday Times
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Shall we broach another cask of wine?
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How can I broach the topic without hurting his feelings?
Times, Sunday Times
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He held the wheel firmly to prevent the ship from broaching to.
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This is guaranteed to become one of the go-to books when nervy parents need to broach this subject.
The Sun
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It was difficult to broach the subject of empowerment or rehabilitation.
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Now I do not broach the abstract question of equality: I am willing to admit that in the eye of our Maker we are, and before the law ought to be, all equal -- that is to say, _ought all to have an equal chance_; but to abolish the idea of subordination in the employed to the employer, and to abrogate the relation of dependence of the servant upon her or his master or mistress, would simply be to reverse the teachings of inspiration and nature.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Arthur, I will accomplish my message for all your fearful words; and went forth by the crest of that hill, and saw where he sat at supper gnawing on a limb of a man, baking his broad limbs by the fire, and breechless, and three fair damosels turning three broaches whereon were broached twelve young children late born, like young birds.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Also the possibilities of realist strategies as radical interventions should be broached.
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For example, "The Dictionary of Anagrams by Samuel C. Hunter" can be anagrammatized into (3, 10, 2, 8, 2, 6, 1, 6) "Racy tome useful in broaching many a hard test.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2
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The angst of the past 18 months was finally over, but there was still one small matter to broach - breaking it all to hubby who, at this point, knew nothing about the project.
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A dozen of us watch five sperm whales broach, and then hyperventilate like marathoners on the starting line, filling every air-bearing cell with oxygen.
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Note the way the word broke into two spellings: the verb broach, meaning to “open up, introduce, address,” and the noun brooch, meaning “an ornamental pin sticking through a garment.”
No Uncertain Terms
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Prophetical Interpretation; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain any thing from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new, and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of catholicity allow to be placed upon "private interpretations.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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When people do dare broach the subject they talk of it with a wide range of emotions - horror, disgust, anger, bitterness, resentment.
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How can we expect teachers to broach a subject that is more than likely very close to their hearts?
The Sun
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T.e philosopher P.T. Geach first broached the subject of relative identity and introduced the phrase ˜relative identity™.
Relative Identity
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I was told before the interview not to broach the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thanksgiving dinner; but before she could broach the subject Martin plunged into the one with which he was full.
Chapter 34
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But there can be a certain reluctance to broach the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't know how to broach the subject with her.
The Sun
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Christ Jesus, who broaches false doctrines and propagates them to the corrupting of the faith in weighty and momentous points, and breaks the peace of the church about them, after due means used to reclaim him, must be rejected.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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I thought I'd better broach the matter with my boss.
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When an effort to update the system was first broached, business groups supported it - until, they say, local governments used it as a pretext to raise levies.
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Prophetical Interpretation; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain any thing from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new, and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of catholicity allow to be placed upon "private interpretations.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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‘I would like to talk to you again sometimes,’ she broached hesitantly.
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You could then broach the idea of opening a savings account for your niece.
Times, Sunday Times
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You could then broach the idea of opening a savings account for your niece.
Times, Sunday Times
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Somehow the topic of dermatology was broached.
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Even the notion of a bankruptcy of Greece was broached, which is nonsense for countries: they restructure their debt but never go bankrupt.
Georges Ugeux: Why it Is Not Smart to Short the Euro
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Hesitated before the bathroom mirror and then, feeling slightly ridiculous, broached a bottle of cologne-for-men which Susan had given for the previous Christmas.
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I also asked if he could broach the idea of the company experimenting with a new model.
Times, Sunday Times
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In another press conference held Sunday, McCain broached the topic of Wright unprompted for the first time, despite previous suggestions that the Wright issue would be an out-of-bounds topic in the presidential race.
McCain: Obama and Wright do not share views
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It was a habit of Mr. Wilson's to meditate before taking action, to listen to advice without comment, frequently without indicating whether or not the idea broached by others had already occurred to him.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
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When I broach the subject of tuition fees he becomes really angry.
Times, Sunday Times
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How can I broach the subject with him?
The Sun
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Inquirers will limit their sources to a handful of primary texts and broach them with a popular academic theory or through a socio-political theme.
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The boat commenced surfing down the face of each new wave, at high speed, and I had to steer the boat aggressively to prevent a broach.
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I didn't broach the issue again.
Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
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The two main parties have become a cartel, operating a tacit understanding not to broach any important issue.
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There are so many more things to consider in adult life that you just can’t broach from the viewpoint of a teenager or younger.
The Condescending Review at SF Novelists
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The issue was not broached in the most articulate or tactful manner, but it did generate quite a bit of discussion on our opinion pages.
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His paper ‘Gifts to the Heroes in Geometric and Archaic Greece’ usefully broached the topic of the actual artefacts offered in hero-cult.
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But some of the medical issues broached here suggest that the paintings had consequences for their maker's health, too.
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Obviously I haven't been brave enough to broach this topic amongst our friends for fear of an outcry.
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If you feel they aren't then it's up to you to broach the issue.
Life Without Work
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He held the wheel firmly to prevent the ship from broaching to.
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Since you say she is already quite insecure, you need to broach this issue sensitively.
Times, Sunday Times
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If this can be offset by rudder action the boat will remain on course, otherwise sail adjustment is necessary to prevent a broach.
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After listening to me for several years on how hydrogen, as an alternative energy, can bring peace and everlasting prosperity to the society of nations, Marvin broached the idea of this talk and your brave president, showing the considerable courage of his military background, extended the invitation.
HydrogenWill the First Element be the Final Fuel?
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Some reports claim that the hatches to the cargo were broken open and the casks of alcohol broached.
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It has broached its plans to snap up smaller competitors with existing shareholders.
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This very loaded broaching, through the use of the word posthumanous, of the thought of an extreme posteriority finds itself sternly warned by Derrida's words, above.
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Let's broach another bottle of wine.
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When I first broached the topic of defining indie, I discussed five areas of contestation (independent label/distribution, independent ethos, genre, aesthetic judgment, and not being mainstream).
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To Mr W. was broached the idea: "I believe that if one set up a few obstacles on the floor, volumes of the British Encyclopedia and so forth, to make a Country, and moved these soldiers and guns about, one could have rather a good game, a kind of kriegspiel." ...
Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.
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Shall we broach another cask of wine?
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I didn't broach the issue again.
Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
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The collection included a wide range of jewellery such as necklaces, earrings, bangles, studs, broaches and mangalsutra.
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Is there a tactful way to broach the subject?
Times, Sunday Times
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A Silver eagle broach is pinned to her cloth coat, a Hermes scarf splashes pink and black across the collar.
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When, two months later, Father van Exem broached the subject, the Archbishop was actually quite upset about the idea.
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It will only upset the applecart and confuse the issue if that topic is broached prematurely.
PROSPECT HILL
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A seawall at Herrington was broached by the surge, destroying large sections of docks.
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He paid tribute to the officers who broach the subject of tissue donation with bereaved families.
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What art thou but a lusk and a turner of broaches and a ladle-washer?
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Then I asked Ham Jordan for advice on broaching the subject with Carter and Bell.
The Good Fight
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These issues are not being broached in open political appeals to the American people, who have never been consulted in any serious way and are largely unaware of the active consideration of a second or expanded war.
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Shall we broach another cask of wine?
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I broached this question one day to warder Smith, who informed me that the bathing appliances of the establishment were scanty, and that the prisoners were only "tubbed" once a fortnight.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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You probably won't have to broach the subject because they will come to you.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's wearing a red jacket, pink blouse with gold broach, rust coloured dress and shoes, large camel coloured coat and brief case.
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Colonel Everson broached the difficult subject with the wizard.
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Understanding that there was a butt of strong beer abroach in the yard, to which they were invited by the servants, they saved themselves the trouble and expense of returning to spend the evening at the public-house, and listed themselves under the banner of Tom Pipes, who presided as director of this festival.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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As one big sea washed us too far around back into the wind, with that weight of sail above, we broached.
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The new facility simulates a clinical environment, and is equipped with CCTV to enable tutors and peers to watch trainees and old-hands alike broaching difficult topics with patient actors.
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First, government is constantly making adjustments that harm some people but benefit society at large, yet no claim to compensation is recognized or even broached.
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How can we expect teachers to broach a subject that is more than likely very close to their hearts?
The Sun
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Outsiders think we locals are jaded by the natural wonder of this place but the truth is, when a whale broaches, we glare like tourists.
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A broach is a rod used for roasting meat or a sharp-pointed tool used for making a hole.
Newsobserver.com blogs
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He broached the idea of seeking direct government aid to a neighbor.
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You probably won't have to broach the subject because they will come to you.
Times, Sunday Times
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There followed one of those discomfortable hours well known to well-bred people, when four of them are anxious upon a subject which they must not broach to the fifth, and the fifth becomes aware of this anxiety.
Over the River
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Dorgan (D-N. D.) broached the idea of tacking his drug reimportation amendment to the food bill.
Home/News
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Keen only pauses for a single paragraph to broach the enormous issue of whether the internet and e-mail are actually changing the way our brains work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among Robert Gordon's distinctive contributions in (Gordon 1987) was the development of an idea first broached by (Thalberg 1977) that most ascriptions of emotions with propositional objects are "factive" ” that is, that they presuppose the truth of their propositional objects.
Emotion
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* Note: A singular "allegoric" explanation of this strange fact has recently been broached: it is connected with the charge of idolatry and Eastern heretical opinions subsequently made against the Templars.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
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I have read a lot of really good posts recently about current affairs and such, so I'm a bit loath to broach similar subjects.
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I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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Some reports claim that the hatches to the cargo were broken open and the casks of alcohol broached.
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The former had at length succeeded to the extensive property of his long-lived grand-aunt, and to considerable wealth besides, which he had employed in redeeming his paternal acres (by the title appertaining to which he still chose to be designated), notwithstanding Captain Craigengelt had proposed to him a most advantageous mode of vesting the money in Law’s scheme, which was just then broached, and offered his services to travel express to
The Bride of Lammermoor
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So astonished and delighted was Goodcastle at this find that he took only it, a diamond cravat pin, a modest broach, and fifty gold guineas, eschewing the many other _objets d'art, _ pieces of jewelry, and gold and silver coin cluttering Mayhew's boudoir (another rule of thievery: The more modest the take, the more likely that weeks or months will pass before the victim discovers his loss, if indeed he ever does).
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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I thought I'd better broach the matter with my boss.
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I don't know how to broach the subject with her.
The Sun
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It was half a year, he thought, since she had last broached the subject of his bachelor status.
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There is one issue which remains, broached in their different ways by Chambers, Bhatt and Osner.
Worth Your Time « Planning the Day
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I happen to agree with Rumsfeld, but I'm disappointed in the howitzer's defenders, and I'm disturbed because so few analysts have broached what this fight is really all about.
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Gem touched the diamond broach that lay at the center of her low, curved neck-line.
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There is still a sort of moral consensus that defines certain subjects as "delicate", gets kind of antsy when such topics are broached, but the consensus seems to have shifted from a conservative default to a liberal one.
MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
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I thought I'd better broach the matter with my boss.
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Part of the attraction for journalists, Walsh suggests, is that the drama broaches the vexed issue of the way in which news is compartmentalised.
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I was told before the interview not to broach the subject.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for the rest, he assailed them in their own way, setting whole hogsheads of beer and wine abroach, for the benefit of comers; and into those sordid hearts that liquor would not open, he found means to convey himself by the help of a golden key.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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Even in the semi-formal surroundings of the Team GB press marquee there is a waspish chemistry between the pair, and an air of almost marital delicacy when the subject is broached of Grainger's recent outings with alternative partners during Watkins' recent injury break.
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins ready to put chemistry to the test
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BROOCH, or BROACH (from the Fr. _broche_, originally an awl or bodkin; a spit is sometimes called a broach, and hence the phrase "to broach a barrel"; see BROKER), a term now used to denote a clasp or fastener for the dress, provided with a pin, having a hinge or spring at one end, and a catch or loop at the other.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Continent under many modifications, one English kind whereof is usually called a "broach," of which you have a beautiful specimen in the new church at Hoole.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
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Her family exchanges uneasy looks as they all wonder how to broach the subject of her son's disappearance.
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Requiring a more convenient mode of transportation, the idea of a railway was broached in 1897, but it wasn't until 1924 that the funicular railway to the top of Flagstaff Hill was built.
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It's best to set aside a special time to broach any difficult topics.
Life Without Work
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Pattaya Mail's Peter Malhotra broached the ceremonial keg while muttering the immortal words ‘Ozapft is’ (the keg is tapped).
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I also asked if he could broach the idea of the company experimenting with a new model.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both men's and women's traditional costumes include a decorative broach used to fasten shirts and blouses.
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Well, said Arthur, I will accomplish my message for all your fearful words; and went forth by the crest of that hill, and saw where he sat at supper gnawing on a limb of a man, baking his broad limbs by the fire, and breechless, and three fair damosels turning three broaches whereon were broached twelve young children late born, like young birds.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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But if you want something different and new abroach, vote for sen.
Analysis: Crossing the Clintons
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How can we expect teachers to broach a subject that is more than likely very close to their hearts?
The Sun
